Re: Open Source Development (was Re: Developers Needed)
Re: Open Source Development (was Re: Developers Needed)
- Subject: Re: Open Source Development (was Re: Developers Needed)
- From: Albert Atkinson <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 11:09:07 -0500
Hello!
Pretty much, all I want is to grant the user the right to learn
from the code and use parts of it in his program. But not to take
the project and modify it a little to give away. I also really
like the example you showed about not being able to sell the
program for money... Is there a thing like this or am I being to
picky?
Thanks for your support!
Albert
On Saturday, June 1, 2002, at 11:06 AM, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
On Saturday, June 1, 2002, at 04:56 PM, Albert Atkinson wrote:
I am hearing a lot of people tell me that open source software is
the way to go. I am slightly thinking of going this way with
Swap but could someone help me out with these questions I have?
First off, the only thing I have about open source is that some
small shareware company could come along, steal the code that I
and others developers have worked so hard on, change some
interface elements and edit some code, rename the project and
then sell it as their own. How would I protect against this?
It all depends on what license you put the source code under. If
you make it GPL, then people can take it and modify it as long as
they make their modified version available free, for example.
-- Finlay
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